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Re:Never Again: We Need Science Based Government by diabeticApe on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:49PM (#24726242)
No i do understand your point and i would agree that we need to introduce some science into the mix to protect us from our leaders and even ourselves in a sense. But since we're opening this can of worms you cant blame me for taking a critical analysis of the situation. We agree for the most part im just trying to spark a discussion to we can start thinking about some of the caveats of how to make this work in practice. As for the video i havent yet watched it so please excuse me if it already addresses some of what im saying but i appreciate the honest dialogue and i very much intend to take a look shortly. Ill follow up after ive taken a look.
Re:Never Again: We Need Science Based Government by pbw on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:12PM (#24726385)
To literally change the government would be a ten year project at least. I'm just raising it create discussion. I just think when Trump leaves office people are going to rapidly forget how bad it was. And another Trump (potentially Trump Jr) is just one election away from winning.

But the idea is to guard against either party going nutso. Parties should be given the chance to steer the ship. But we shouldn't let them take apart the ship, and deny is there is water, something has to be out of bounds. Play is "freedom within constraints" there have to be constraints, reality should be a constraint.

Re:Never Again: We Need Science Based Government by diabeticApe on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:38AM (#24728265)
Im not saying we shouldn't put the intentions of our founding fathers into context with the modern world im saying we should still protect individual human rights from government abuse of power. Isnt that what we were discussing? Protecting individuals from government abuse and authoritarian rule?
Re:Never Again: We Need Science Based Government by diabeticApe on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:31AM (#24728226)
Great commentary was a Joe Rogan clip? Im not impressed. And your arguing a point i never made.